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Update! How I am still ALIVE and functioning is a Miracle! May 2013 update: I will be having another MRI in October and then we shall schedule surgery, if needed, over the Thanksgiving holidays. Please keep me in your prayers. By the Way, I have lost 60 pounds since this picture was taken!
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Background
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I have been on Authorsden a little bit over 12 years now! My how time flies! Wow! AD has become my Second home and I value the opinions of all who review my work. The people at AD are special to me. They are my family!!!!!
*Life* is *Wonderful* here! Celebrate and Dance!
My favorite person is Helen Keller and
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
My favorite musician is Bach.
My favorite composer, Mike McCuistion.
I have currently been awarded into a book of the
"Best Poems and Poets for the Year 2007!" I am flattered.
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Birth Place
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Dallas, TX USA
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Accomplishments
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Poems on www.poetry.com, WWW.SPIRITHUNTER.ORG,
www.shelovesgod.com, www.wildviolet.net
and www.christianpoets.com.
Received theWho's Who in International Library of Poetry for the Year 2004
and nominated for the Year 2005! Wow!
Got word on July 3rd, 2004 that I had received the
Famous Poet of the Year 2004 AND the
Shakespeare Trophy of Excellence Award!
On September 15th, 2004, Got selected into
a book that poetry.com is putting out of only
200 of their Best Poems and Poets and I was
selected for the year 2004, the very first year
they are putting it out on the market!
Isn't that great!?
I have already won the Famous Poet Award
for the Year 2005! Wow!
I did not realise this until AFTER
it was too late to enter, but back in 1999;
I was nominated for the Millenium Poets
and all I had to do was turn in one poem. Silly me didn't even see it for it was mixed
in with some other things as well.
I shall know better for next time!
I received the Editor's Choice Award
for December 2005 for my most recent poem,
Whispering Souls
The poem is dedicated to my Mom.
I used to be a Computer Programmer for
four years from 1992-1996 before I started in as poetry and short story writing in Fall of 2001.
I have gotten the National Poet Lauraete 2002 Honorable Mention
for my poem, Light. I was also a Finalist in the 2003 National Poet Lauraete Competition.
I have received the Editor's Choice Award
for my poem,Christ, for the March 2004 contest put out by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry! I also received the "Editor's Choice Award"
for the March 2005 year and the poem was
was called, "Expression(s)".
My poems are updated and reviewed every
time Spirithunter comes out on the internet.
Only a few times has my work not been shown since the magazine has come out. I am a regular contributor to that magazine and know the editor well.
The poem, Light, was originally placed in an anthology back in 1993 and on the Cancer Survivor's newsletter as the very FIRST poem published in their history of newsletters for childhood cancer started in the state of Arizona.
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Additional Information
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For a piece of work I did seven years ago (2004) Angels on Earth Magazine, printed my story which they PAID me money for! It is appearing in the newsletter/magazine of Angels on Earth which will be appearing in the issue of May/June 2007.
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Favorite Links
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Rebecca's Poetry of Anger, Hurt and Faith.
A list of about 313 poems that I have written over the past 16 years about sexual abuse, no father, having a brainstem tumor, having Cowden's Disease and possibly Neurofibromatosis type II and just being BLESSED by the Lord for having SURVIVED my battle with the tumor!
Ecap
One of my favorite places to go to. It is all about Dr.Bernie S. Siegel and his books. I go there when I want to relax. He mentions me sometimes in the chat room. Ecap is a group he started in 1977 for cancer patients. They taught HIM a thing or two about LOVE and HEALING!
Poetic Harmony
My personal website which I update every few months. It includes poems and of what I feel is relevant in life. My poetry is on Narcotics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous, Religous Poems, Healing poems, and Musical lyrics!
Dr. Bernie S. Siegel
Bernie is the grandfather of the belief of the soul, mind and body acting as one in the universe.
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